Aubrey Plaza Talks to Her Younger Self in My Old Ass Trailer

The actress stars in Megan Park's second film, which premiered at the Sundance Festival earlier this year.

The summer before entering university, young Elliott embarks on a forest excursion with her friends. After taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, she finds herself face to face with her 39-year-old self. A meeting that will change the course of his life.

Coming-of-age with comic springs, My Old Ass was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival this year, unfolding in an almost phantasmagorical allegory of adolescence where doubts, lack of self-confidence and anxiety about the future rule. Acquired by Amazon MGM Studios on the occasion of the gathering, My Old Ass takes its title from a line that can be discovered in the trailer below:

Megan Park first gained fame as an actress in the series The secret Life of an ordinary teenage girlwhich she shares the bill with Shailene Woodley. In 2019, she became Francine Walker for the spin-off of Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon. His film career developed in orbit of the Disney system, with films like A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (with Lucy Hale) Or Miss detective (with Miley Cyrus).

She made her debut behind the camera in 2021, with Falloutwhich looks at the fallout of a tragic event on a young girl played by Jenna Ortega. The cast also included Shailene Woodley, Maddie Ziegler (Dance Moms) And Julie Bowen (Modern Family). The film was acquired by HBO Max after being shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

This year, Megan Park puts her director's hat back on for My Old Ass, a comedy this time, which she also wrote. To produce it, she teamed up with LuckyChap, the production company of Margot Robbie who also participated in the films Saltburn And barbie.

About her film, the director said this at the Sundance Film Festival:

“I kept thinking about this idea: there was a time when we used to play pretend with our friends, and now we don't do it at all. This idea moved me a lot. I wanted to immerse myself in a happy film, something that would make people nostalgic for an easier, simpler time. Because life can be hard and shitty sometimes.”

In the casting, Maisy Stella (Nashville) And Aubrey Plaza – who climbed the steps of the Croisette last May to present Megalopolis next to Francis Ford Coppola – play each other in the same role, but twenty years apart. We also find Maddie Ziegler, whom Megan Park found after FalloutSO, Percy Hynes-White (Wednesday), Kerrice Brooks (The Prom), Maria Dizzia (Orange is the New Black) And Seth Isaac Johnson (Adam and his clones).

The film will arrive in a few select American theaters on September 13 before being available on Prime Video nationally. For the moment, no French release date has been announced.

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